DEAD WHALE ASHORE
WELLINGTON VISITOR
PREY OF HAG-FISH
(Per Tress Association.) WELLINGTON, this day
The dead body of a 30ft. humpback whale was washed ashore at Lyall Bay on Saturday afternoon’s tide. It wa's stranded among the rocks a r t jthe -ve r itern end of the beach and v.ss left high and dry at ebb tide. During the week-end some thousands of spectators flocked to see it. The whale appeared l to have been dead for some weeks' for decomposition was well advanced'. The water teemed with the sightless and loathsome hagfislt, or blind' eels, .'he eaters of the dead in Davey Jones’ locker. They had followed the dead whale into the bay, finding their way by scent, since they could not see.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20009, 7 August 1939, Page 14
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125DEAD WHALE ASHORE Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20009, 7 August 1939, Page 14
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